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Ariadne is ingenious, clever, consoling and ferocious... and entirely fascinating. - Kerry Greenwood

Ariadne is pretty much like any other sixteen-year old girl. Her mum is a witch, her dad hardly knows she is alive, her sister is a trollop and her little brother is quite literally a monster. He is known as the Minotaur, half-bull, half-man, trapped in a labyrinth and, as legend has it, fed with the blood of virgins.

Ariadne is also the daughter of the mighty King Minos of Crete, who claims to be the son of Zeus, and her mother, Pasiphae, is the offspring of the sun god, Helios. But our princess is still a heartbroken sixteen-year-old girl who needs a good lie down.

The life of Ariadne may be a little unusual, but after all, she lived in a time when kings read the future in the entrails of slaughtered beasts. A time when it was dangerous for a teenage girl to know her own mind.

Ariadne has made the Premier's Reading Challenge list in Victoria.